Educational Policies

College Of Medicine Educational Policies & Procedures

The University of Illinois College of Medicine (UI COM) has expectations for teachers and students. In order for us to ensure the high quality of education for which we hold ourselves accountable, we steadfastly insist that all faculty, resident, and students are aware of our formal policies.

DATES FOR AWARDING DEGREES

The College of Medicine students who are completing their M4 year should have an understanding of how their degree is awarded and the documents they will need after they graduate. Your degree is awarded by the University of Illinois at Chicago. The University only awards degrees on certain dates.

Degree Conferment

Conferment Date

To be considered and eligible for graduation, you must be scheduled for all clinical requirements, have passed USMLE Step 2 CK and Step 2 CS:

Spring 2015

May 10, 2015

by June 20, 2015

Summer 2015

August 9, 2015

between June 21, 2015 and August 22, 2015

Fall 2015

December 13, 2015

between August 23, 2015 and December 26, 2015

Spring 2016

May 8, 2016

by June, 18, 2016

Summer 2016

August 7, 2016

between June 19, 2016 and August 20, 2016

Fall 2016

December 11, 2016

between August 20, 2016 and December 24, 2016

If you will be a summer semester graduate and only have remaining graduation requirements which will be completed before July 1, and your residency program requires a letter of verification, the Office of the Registrar will write a letter, including the College of Medicine seal, stating that you have completed graduation requirements but due to the College and University’s calendar your degree will not be conferred until the end of the summer semester.

Similarly, if you will be a fall graduate and have complete requirements prior to the degree conferment date, and your residency program requires a letter of verification, the Office of the Registrar will write a letter, including the College of Medicine seal, stating that you have completed graduation requirements but due to the College and University’s calendar your degree will not be conferred until the end of the fall semester.

As an academic community, the University of Illinois at Chicago is committed to providing an environment in which research, learning, and scholarship can flourish and in which all endeavors are guided by academic and professional integrity. All members of the campus community — students, staff, faculty, administrators — share the responsibility of insuring that these standards are upheld so that such an environment exists. Instances of academic misconduct by students, and as defined herein, shall be handled pursuant to the Student Disciplinary Policy.The following is the UIC policy on academic dishonesty which includes, but is not limited to:

Cheating: either intentionally using or attempting to use unauthorized information, people, or study aids in any academic exercise; providing to, or receiving from another person, any kind of unauthorized assistance on any examination or assignment.

Fabricating: unauthorized falsification, reproduction, lack of attribution, or invention of any information or citation in an academic exercise.

Facilitating academic dishonesty/plagiarism: intentionally or knowingly representing the words or ideas of another as one’s own in any academic exercise.

Offering bribes, favors, or threats: bribing, attempting to bribe, promising favors to or making threats against any person with the intention of affecting a record of a grade or evaluation of academic performance; any conspiracy with another person who then takes, or attempts to take action on behalf of, or at the direction of the student.

Taking an examination by proxy: taking or attempting to take an exam for someone else is a violation by both the student enrolled in the course and the proxy or substitute.

Grade tampering: any unauthorized change, attempt to change or alteration of grades.

Submitting non-original works: submission or attempt to submit any written work, written in whole or in part, by someone other than the student.

More than 130 organizations across the world have endorsed the Physician Charter

It has been translated into 12 languages

Nearly 100,000 copies have been distributed

The number of journal articles published on medical professionalism has increased threefold to nearly 300 a year

The Charter has as its fundamental principles the primacy of patient welfare, patient autonomy and social justice. The Charter also articulates professional commitments of physicians and health care professionals, including improving access to high quality health care, advocating for a just and cost-effective distribution of finite resources, and maintaining trust by managing conflicts of interest.